Articles

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE: Pushing The Yellow Bus 20 Years Later

Introduction It’s hard to overstate the enormous impact that Little Miss Sunshine had when the film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006. It...

THE END OF OAK STREET Review: A Summer Movie From Another Time

Introduction From the moment the soundtrack starts in David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street, I felt a certain sense of nostalgia. This movie...

QUENTIN TARANTINO: What’s Next For One Of Hollywood’s Greatest Directors?

Introduction Almost 35 years into his career, Quentin Tarantino remains one of the most distinctive and influential filmmakers of the modern era. Emerging from the...

LANGUAGE LESSONS Review: Growing Together While Apart

Filmed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, director/writer/star Natalie Morales and writer/star Mark Duplass set the bar for socially-distant filmmaking with Language Lessons....

A Review Of The Film BROKEN DIAMONDS (2021)

Cinema Scholars presents a review for the film Broken Diamonds starring Ben Platt and Lola Kirke, ahead of its release by FilmRise and in...

SETTLERS (2021) – A Movie Review

Introduction Writer-director Wyatt Rockefeller’s debut feature Settlers is not your typical science-fiction fare. Unlike films such as 2015's The Martian, Rockefeller's film is one that...

THE EXCHANGE (2021): A Review Of The 80s Coming-Of-Age Comedy

Introduction Period pieces in film represent a good chunk of current offerings. People love telling stories from the past. A big part of an honest...

RIDE THE EAGLE (2021): A Review Of The New Jake Johnson Comedy

Introduction Sometimes when a reviewer says that an actor “carries the film,” they mean that the performer’s talent and sheer charisma are the glue that...